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TIL Travelling and watching movies will increase the likelihood of experiencing déjà vu

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eQJk TIL The Joker has committed more individual acts of murder than any other villain in the DC universe. His body count is topped only by some extremely powerful supervillains who have laid waste to cities full of people at once.
nerDY TIL that on 12th April 1945, for their last performance before the end of WW2, the Berlin Philharmonic performed Wagner's 'Götterdämmerung' - Twilight of the Gods - while the Hitler Youth distributed cyanide pills to the audience so they could kill themselves.
MeayW TIL Paul Edmund Strzelecki, a Polish gentleman, saved over 200,000 children during the Irish famine.
R7PaQ TIL about Miklós Nyiszli, a Jewish-Hungarian inmate at Auschwitz. As a doctor by profession, he had to assist Dr. Mengele in cruel "experiments" and could in return live within a room inside Crematorium II. He survived and never again worked with a scalpel after the war.
08np TIL that exactly 200 years ago today the British captured Washington DC and burnt the White House to the ground.